Movement & Meditation Therapy
Effectively moderating our inner world through the use of healthy tools to strengthen our resilience and our ability to navigate life’s challenges

MOVEMENT 

Commitment to health; Commitment to quality! Regain your relationship with movement. Groundwork Healing is where bio-mechanical movement and psychological wellness comes together to create ultimate wellness. We believe that the interwoven relationship between body, mind, and essence creates the foundation for an enhanced quality of life, and overall happiness. In our overstimulated society, we live in a faster paced, and more stressful world, than previous generations. Much of our behaviours revolve around negotiating with ourselves to find strategies to regulate our mood in order to cope with the anxiety and stress we experience in our every day lives. Oftentimes, our coping strategies actually increase our struggles rather than improve our overall mental and physical health. Movement can help to elevate our positive mindset by safeguarding against negative emotions that threaten to cloud our decision making. The mind + body + essence connection organically moves you to live a sustainably healthier lifestyle.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               JOY!
Regain your relationship with movement​! There is extensive scientific evidence that certain ways that we move our bodies improves physical and psychological wellness helping aid in reducing, or even eliminating, anxiety and depression, thus expanding our capacity for joy. Yes, that’s right! Exercise is an inoculation from stress! Movement is interwoven in our human story and is the key to bringing pleasure and joy back to living!  At Groundwork Healing, we use an integrated approach to movement, while using the most proven and up-to-date ​methods and techniques for optimal physical performance. Through positive conditioning, we guide you through health-​based safe practices that you will stick with for a lifetime. Calisthenics, derived from the ancient Greek word “beautiful strength” is brilliantly designed to use your own natural body weight to allow your body to develop strength, endurance, flexibility, and coordination. Move your body in a functional, effective, and balanced way as Nicole guides you through a calisthenic workout that combines breath-work and mindful movements that uses the integrity of your own unique body weight to perform and build strength and power from within. Move in a way that is both dynamic and effective, and bio-mechanically safe allowing you to connect with your body on a deeper level. 

Meditation

~Your body and mind are a beautifully designed, interconnected ecosystem, that is in a continuous loop of communication with one another. This sacred relationship is always at play seeking to maintain and restore balance within us. “Grounding” is the art of recognizing this sacred mind-body connection so that we can cultivate healthy behaviours that promote our well-being-ecosystem.​ When we are anxious, everything seems hopeless and the world uninviting. Our motivation to get things done dissipates and our ability to enjoy the simple pleasures in life are clouded. In a very real sense, our moods not only determine how we are able to effectively cope with life’s difficulties, but how much joy we experience in life.

~Meditation uses the wisdom of our bodies to effectively elevate our moods and regulate our nervous system so that we are able to navigate through our overstimulating and often stressful day-to-day environment. Our ability to ‘practice presence’ and give ourselves permission to be in the moment is extremely powerful… The breath is the most readily accessible tool for reducing anxiety and depression.

~At Groundwork healing, Nicole will carefully guide you through her delicately designed meditation sessions/program. She derives her sequences from ancient breathing techniques of pranayama combined with the healing tool of sound bowl meditation to calm your mind and bring you into a deep state of relaxation leaving you feeling rejuvenated! Allow yourself to reap the rewards of this extremely effective fusion as she provides strategies and techniques that will:

• Use breath-work to connect with your mind and body on a deeper level,

• Help you find your “inner anchor” in our fast overstimulated world,

• Provide you with insight into how to rewire your brain to resist anxiety by targeting the area of our brain responsible for anxiety,

• Create a deeper sense of inner peace and calm, and,

• Learn patience with yourself while you grow